Aesthetica by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

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In 1992 Helmut Buske Verlag ( ), which specializes in textbooks and dictionaries on foreign languages, was acquired. Based in Hamburg since 1951, the publisher is now in family ownership under the management of Manfred Meiner. Felix Meiner (1883-1965) founded in Leipzig, the publisher has since pursued a purely humanistic program. In 1911, with the takeover of the Philosophical Library of Dr. This connection does not only constitute the mutual horizon of Baumgarten's aesthetics and ethics, but maybe also is of genuine relevance for his philosophical and theological work as a whole - and his personal life, too. Here it can be shown paradigmatically, how Baumgarten draws the connection between sensory cognition, morally good acting, the knowledge of God and man's belonging to God's Reign of Grace.

XV - XXXVI, §§ 177-422) in Baumgartens aesthetic mainwork. In her essay Dagmar Mirbach concentrates, on the basis of the introduction of her translation of the Aesthetica (2 vol., Hamburg 2007) on the first point, on Baumgartens concept of ‚aesthetic greatness' (magnitudo aesthetica) and of ‚aesthetic magnanimity' (magnanimitas aesthetica), following the central sections to this theme (sect. 1739), insofar complement each other, as in his aesthetics the perfection of the appetitive faculty and the orientation of human acting towards the morally good, and, vice versa, in his ethics the perfection of the sensory faculty is of central importance. 1740), on the basis of his Metaphysica (1st ed. The background of this contribution is the insight that Baumgartens Aesthetica (1750/58) and his Ethica (1st ed.

Es kann hiermit paradigmatisch gezeigt werden, wie Baumgarten die Verbindung zwischen sinnlicher Erkenntnis, sittlich gutem Handeln, Gotteserkenntnis und Gottesebenbildlichkeit respektive Gottesgefolgschaft herstellt, die vielleicht nicht nur den gemeinsamen gedanklichen Horizont seiner Ästhetik und Ethik bildet, sondern für sein gesamtes Werk - und persönliches Leben - von maßgeblicher Bedeutung ist. Erarbeitet wird der Begriff der 'ästhetischen Größe' (magnitudo) und der 'ästhetischen Seelengröße' (magnanimitas) an den entsprechenden Abschnitten (XV-XXXVI, §§ 177-422) in der Aesthetica. Der Beitrag vertritt die These, daß Baumgartens Aesthetica und Ethica sich insofern komplementär ergänzen, als der Vervollkommnung der sinnlichen Erkenntnis auch in der Ethik, und umgekehrt der Vervollkommnung des Begehrungsvermögens und der Ausrichtung des Handelns auf das sittlich Gute auch in der Ästhetik jeweils eine tragende Rolle zukommt.

Aesthetica by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten